Honors

March 17, 1986|By Jerry Jackson of The Sentinel Staff

The late Orange County citrus pioneer Philip Phillips, known as Dr. P. Phillips, has been inducted posthumously into the Florida Citrus Hall of Fame in Winter Haven. Phillips was known as the world's largest fresh citrus packer during the 1920s and 1930s and was credited with a number of citrus firsts, including the aerial dusting of groves to control insects in 1934. Also inducted posthumously into the Hall of Fame was Robert W. Rutledge, former executive vice president of Florida Citrus Mutual, the state's largest growers organization, which has its headquarters in Lakeland.